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National Vaudeville Artists: (from the article "Albee, Edward Franklin") ...circuit. By the 1920s it controlled nearly 400 theatres in the East and Midwest. Albee was president of the United Bookings Office from its formation in 1900. In 1916 he ...
National Voter Registration Act: (from the article "United States") ...or caucuses, turnout has sometimes fallen below 10 percent. High abstention rates led to efforts to encourage voter participation by making voting easier. For example, in 1993 Congress passed the ...
National Water Carrier: (from the article "Galilee, Sea of") In the 1960s the Sea of Galilee became the starting point of the National Water Carrier (also called Kinneret-Negev Conduit), a canal that conveys water from the Jordan River to ...
National Weather Service: (from the article "weather map") ...amount and types of clouds, the weather type, including restrictions to visibility, and the amount and type of precipitation. In the United States, weather maps are issued every three hours ...
National Westminster Bank: former British bank holding company with branches and subbranches in the United Kingdom and operations across the world. It was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2000.
National Woman Suffrage Association: American organization, founded in 1869 and based in New York City, that was created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton when the women's rights movement split into two ... [13 Related Articles]
National Woman's Day: (from the article "International Women's Day") ...(IWD) grew out of efforts in the early 20th century to promote women's rights, especially suffrage. In its campaign for female enfranchisement, the Socialist Party of America in 1909 held ...
National Woman's Party: American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [6 Related Articles]
National Women's Hall of Fame: not-for-profit educational institution founded in 1969 to honour the accomplishments of outstanding American women. The Hall of Fame is located in Seneca Falls, New York, the site of the first ...
National Women's History Month: honorary observance of the month of March, as designated in 1987 by the U.S. Congress, in recognition of women's many accomplishments throughout history. A variety of agencies, schools, and organizations ... [1 Related Articles]
National Women's History Project: not-for-profit American organization founded in 1980 to "promote multicultural women's history awareness." [1 Related Articles]
National Women's Political Caucus: nonpartisan American political organization formed in 1971 to identify, recruit, train, endorse, and support women seeking public office. The organization endeavours to improve the status of women by amplifying the ... [3 Related Articles]
National Women's Trade Union League: (from the article "Robins, Margaret Dreier") In 1905 she married Raymond Robins (1873-1954), a settlement worker and former successful gold prospector who shared her social concerns. From 1907 until 1922, as head of the National Women's ...
National Youth Administration: (from the article "United States") ...1941 the WPA employed an annual average of 2,100,000 workers, including artists and writers, who built or improved schools, hospitals, airports, and other facilities by the tens of thousands. The ...
National Youth Theatre: (from the article "Performing Arts") In a year flecked with anniversaries, the admirable National Youth Theatre also celebrated its 50th, and on October 8 Les Miserables officially marked its 21st year on the London stage. ...
National Zoological Gardens of South Africa: zoo near Pretoria, S.Af., that is noted for its wildlife conservation programs. It was opened in 1899 by the State Museum of the South African Republic on a small stretch ...
National Zoological Park: zoo in Washington, D.C., that was established under the Smithsonian Institution by acts of the U.S. Congress in 1889 and 1890, when a site in the wooded valley of Rock ... [1 Related Articles]
national-origins system: (from the article "United States") ...but it was not until after World War I that the era of mass immigration came to an abrupt end. The Immigration Act of 1924 established an annual quota (fixed ...
Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art: (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...and multimedia artist Darren Almond were short-listed. Dubbed the "German Turner" for its aim to bridge contemporary art with wider audiences accustomed to event-driven culture, the Nationalgalerie Prize for Young ...
nationalism: ideology based on the premise that the individual's loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass other individual or group interests. [93 Related Articles]
Nationalist Association: (from the article "Italy") ...as did former prime minister Giolitti, the major opposition groups (Catholics and Socialists), and most of the population. War therefore was supported only by the conservatives in government, by the ...
Nationalist Citizens' Party: (from the article "Recto, Claro Mayo") In 1957 Recto broke away from the Nacionalistas and joined the new Nationalist Citizens' Party, advocating neutrality in foreign relations and economic independence from U.S. interests. He ran unsuccessfully as ...
Nationalist Democratic Action: (from the article "Banzer Suarez, Hugo") ...he staged a coup, forcing Banzer to resign on July 21, 1978. Exiled by Pereda to Argentina, Banzer returned in 1979 and founded the Accion Democratica Nacionalista (ADN; Nationalist Democratic ...
nationalist monarchy: (from the article "monarchy") When he crowned himself Emperor of France in 1804 (and ratified the act by a people's referendum), Napoleon Bonaparte instituted a new type of monarchy. This was the "nationalist monarchy," ...
Nationalist Party: (from the article "Australian Labor Party") ...the party split over the issue of conscription, the Labor Party proper going out of office until 1929. Many pro-conscription members remained in power for some years as members of ...
Nationalist Party: (from the article "Osmena, Sergio") Filipino statesman, founder of the Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista) and president of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946.place in Philippine history
Nationalist Party: (from the article "Puerto Rico") ...to modify the political relations between the island and the U.S. federal government; the island's Republican Party favoured statehood, whereas the Union Party worked for greater autonomy. The Nationalist Party ...
Nationalist Party: (from the article "Malta") In February, Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami gave up his leadership of the Nationalist Party (NP), and Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi was elected as the new party leader. On ...
Nationalist Party: political party that governed all or part of mainland China from 1928 to 1949 and subsequently ruled Taiwan under Chiang Kai-shek and his successors for most of the time since ... [50 Related Articles]
Nationalist Republican Alliance: (from the article "El Salvador") The murder in Guatemala of three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament on Feb. 19, 2007, jostled El Salvador's government. The deputies belonged to El Salvador's ruling Nationalist Republican ...
Nationalist Republican Party: (from the article "Suriname") The 1958 elections produced a coalition government of the NPS and the VHP. In 1961 the left-wing Nationalist Republican Party (Partij Nationalistische Republiek; PNR) was established. Among the East Indian ...
nationalistic music: (from the article "music, Western") ...are the ultimate artistic message. In contrast to the universality of musical style that prevailed during the 18th century, much 19th-century music is identifiable in terms of national origin. Nationalism-the ...
Nationalities Law: (from the article "Hungary") The Nationalities Law (1868) guaranteed that all citizens of Hungary, whatever their nationality, constituted politically "a single nation, the indivisible, unitary Hungarian nation," and there could be no differentiation between ...
nationality: in law, membership in a nation or sovereign state. It is to be distinguished from citizenship (q.v.), a somewhat narrower term that is sometimes used to denote the status of ... [2 Related Articles]
nationality principle: (from the article "international law") ...one state to act within another state in certain circumstances (e.g., the Channel Tunnel arrangements between the United Kingdom and France and the 1994 peace treaty between Israel and Jordan). ...
nationalization: alteration or assumption of control or ownership of private property by the state. It is historically a more recent development than and differs in motive and degree from "expropriation" or ... [18 Related Articles]
Nationalrat: (from the article "Austria") ...This represented a defeat for the federal elements in the states, which had wanted the Bundesrat to exercise an absolute veto and to be composed of equal numbers of members ...
Nationalverein: (from the article "Bennigsen, Rudolf von") ...in 1856 in order to accept his election to the lower chamber of that kingdom. A vigorous defender of freedom of religion, he became leader of the liberal opposition and, ...
Nations Cup: (from the article "show jumping") ...of four riders, a Nations Cup is based on two rounds, with the worst score of each team in each round being discarded. The President's Cup, instituted in 1965, is ...
Nations, League of: an organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I. [50 Related Articles]
Nationwide Series: (from the article "NASCAR") In addition to overseeing the Cup Series, NASCAR sanctions two major national series: the Nationwide Series (founded in 1982 and called the Busch Series 1984-2007), in which race cars that ...
Native (Urban Areas) Act: (from the article "Johannesburg") ...The process was facilitated by the ideology of segregation, which emerged in the first quarter of the 20th century as a kind of panacea for South Africa's "race problem." The ...
Native American: member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, although the term often connotes only those groups whose original territories were in present-day Canada and the United States. [82 Related Articles]
Native American art: the visual art of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas, often called American Indians. For a further discussion of the visual art of the Americas produced in the period after ... [13 Related Articles]
Native American arts: (from the article "Native American arts") arts of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas. Native American arts are treated in a number of articles. See Native American literature, which includes a discussion of the oral tradition; ...
Native American Church: most widespread indigenous religious movement among North American Indians and one of the most influential forms of Pan-Indianism. The term peyote derives from the Nahuatl name peyotl for a cactus. ... [10 Related Articles]
Native American dance: the dance of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas, often called American Indians. [1 Related Articles]
Native American gaming: (from the article "Plains Indian") ...languages. Several tribes implemented buffalo ranching operations with programs that were hoped to aid in the restoration of the Plains ecosystem. A number of groups own casinos and hotels (see ...
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: (from the article "Kennewick") ...European, rather than Asian, descent. This characteristic touched off a scholarly debate about the peopling of America, a controversy further inflamed by the U.S. government's application of the Native American ...
Native American literature: the traditional oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. These include ancient hieroglyphic and pictographic writings of Middle America as well as an extensive set of ... [1 Related Articles]
Native American music: music of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The Americas contain hundreds of native communities, each with its own distinctive history, language, and musical culture. These communities-although united in ... [2 Related Articles]
Native American religions: religious beliefs and sacramental practices of the indigenous peoples of North and South America. Until the 1950s it was commonly assumed that the religions of the surviving Native Americans were ... [1 Related Articles]
native bank: (from the article "China") The most-dramatic economic innovations of the 18th century resulted from the needs of long-distance traders for credit and new mechanisms that would ease the transfer of funds. Native banks, as ...
Native Brotherhood: (from the article "Northwest Coast Indian") ...region were able to organize relatively effectively against government interference. Beginning in 1912, the Tlingit, Haida, and other tribes in southeastern Alaska created political groups called Native Brotherhoods, and in ...
native cat: any of the catlike Australian marsupials that make up the genus Dasyurus in the family Dasyuridae. All native cats are predators that hunt chiefly at night. Because they sometimes raid ...
Native Council of Canada: (from the article "Canada") ...flourished. At the national level, Indians were represented by the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of First Nations), while Metis and nonstatus Indians were represented by the Native Council ...
Native Dancer: (foaled 1950), U.S. racehorse (Thoroughbred) who won 21 of 22 starts and achieved widespread popularity as the first outstanding horse whose major victories were seen on national television. Sired by ...
native element: any of a number of chemical elements that may occur in nature uncombined with other elements. The elements that occur as atmospheric gasses are ... [2 Related Articles]
Native Institute: (from the article "Mexico") ...Modern and Classical Ballet, all of which perform nationally and internationally to promote Mexican culture. Folk and popular culture also receive support through government bodies, among them the Native Institute, ...
Native Land Act: (from the article "Weld, Sir Frederick Aloysius") ...Governor Grey asked Weld to form a ministry (1864). During the next year British troops were withdrawn from New Zealand, and large tracts of Maori land were confiscated under the ...
Native Lands Act: (from the article "Southern Africa") ...farmers wanted to take over the African reserves for their own use, eliminate competition from African producers, and reduce the employment status of Africans from tenancy to labour service. The ...
Native Sisterhood: (from the article "Northwest Coast Indian") ...effectively against government interference. Beginning in 1912, the Tlingit, Haida, and other tribes in southeastern Alaska created political groups called Native Brotherhoods, and in 1923 Native Sisterhoods, to act on ...
Native Title Act: (from the article "Australia") ...the first white settlers arrived. The court also ruled that, while native title had been exterminated over vast areas, it might still exist over leaseholds and unoccupied crown land. The ...
nativism: (from the article "Rationalism") ...that perception is conditioned by probability judgments formed on the basis of earlier actions performed in similar situations. As a corrective to these sweeping claims, the Rationalist defends a nativism, ...
nativist movement: (from the article "United States") ...The Locofocos (so named after the matches they used to light up their first meeting in a hall darkened by their opponents) denounced monopolists in the Democratic Party and out. ...
Nativistic movement: (from the article "eschatology") Although usually associated with societies in the Judeo-Christian tradition, eschatological and messianic movements have emerged in various societies around the world. For example, the people of the Andaman Islands in ...
Nativity: a theme in Christian art depicting the newborn Jesus with the Virgin Mary and other figures, following descriptions of Christ's birth in the Gospels and Apocrypha. An old and popular ... [3 Related Articles]
Nativity: (from the article "Christianity") ...in the accompanying ceremony play the roles of the Holy Family and other saints important to the altar display. Re-creating the Holy Family's search for room in a Bethlehem inn ...
Nativity play: (from the article "dramatic literature") A great variety of drama has been written for special audiences. Plays have been written for children, largely in the 20th century, though Nativity plays have always been associated with ...
Nativity, Church of the: (from the article "Bethlehem") ...site of the Nativity of Jesus was identified by St. Justin Martyr, a 2nd-century Christian apologist, as a manger in "a cave close to the village"; the cave, now under ...
NATO air defense ground environment: (from the article "warning system") ...systems that have appeared throughout the world. Examples include the semiautomatic ground environment (SAGE), augmented by a mobile backup intercept control system called BUIC in the United States, NATO air ...
Natorp, Paul: (from the article "Kantianism") ...slices of space and time and adding up their areas. Hence experience is a perfect construction of man's logical spirit. Cohen's example inspired many authors, among them Cohen's colleague at ...
Natrix: (from the article "water snake") Natrix, the genus of Eurasian water snakes, is made up of four species. The common grass snake (N. natrix), which is the most terrestrial ...
natrolite: hydrated sodium aluminosilicate mineral, Na₂Al₂Si₃O₁₀·2H₂O, in the zeolite family. It has been found in the form of colourless or white, glassy, slender crystals or fibrous masses filling cavities or fissures ...
natron: (from the article "thermonatrite") ...hydrated sodium carbonate (Na₂CO₃·H₂O), found near saline lakes as an evaporation product or on arid soil as an efflorescence. It is usually associated with natron (Na₂CO₃·10H₂O) and trona, which alter ...
Natron, Lake: lake in northern Tanzania on the border with Kenya, lying in the East African Rift System, 70 miles (113 km) northwest of Arusha. The lake is 35 miles (56 km) ... [3 Related Articles]
Natsagdorj, Dashdorjiyn: (from the article "Mongolia") In literature, the poems and short stories of Dashdorjiyn Natsagdorj became particularly significant in the 1930s. The literature of the 1940s was more varied in theme and genre, and the ...
Natsume Soseki: outstanding Japanese novelist of the Meiji period and the first to ably depict the plight of the alienated modern Japanese intellectual. [2 Related Articles]
Natta, Giulio: Italian chemist who contributed to the development of high polymers useful in the manufacture of films, plastics, fibres, and synthetic rubber. Along with Karl Ziegler of Germany, he was honoured ... [3 Related Articles]
Nattier, Jean-Marc: French Rococo painter noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire.
Natufian culture: Mesolithic culture of Palestine and southern Syria dating from about 9000 BC. Mainly hunters, the Natufians supplemented their diet by gathering wild grain; they likely did not cultivate it. They ... [4 Related Articles]
natural: (from the article "bullfighting") ...de la firma, in which the muleta is moved in front of the bull's nose while the bullfighter remains motionless. Especially noteworthy is the left-handed natural, a ...
natural: (from the article "accidental") ...sign placed immediately to the left of (or above) a note to show that the note must be changed in pitch. A sharp (♯) raises a note by a semitone; ...
natural abrasive: (from the article "Hardness of prominent abrasive materials") The materials used to make abrasives can be broadly classified as either natural or synthetic. Natural abrasives include diamond, corundum, and emery; they occur in natural deposits and can be ...
natural asphalt: (from the article "asphalt") ...obtained either as a residue from the distillation of petroleum or from natural deposits. Asphalt consists of compounds of hydrogen and carbon with minor proportions of nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen. ...
natural bridge: naturally created arch formation resembling a bridge. Most natural bridges are erosion features that occur in massive, horizontally bedded sandstone or limestone. Some bridges, such as the Natural Bridge near ... [2 Related Articles]
Natural Bridge: natural limestone arch, Rockbridge county, western Virginia, U.S., 20 miles (32 km) south of Lexington near the village of Natural Bridge and the northern portion of Jefferson National Forest. The ... [1 Related Articles]
Natural Bridges National Monument: scenic area in southeastern Utah, U.S., containing three natural sandstone bridges. The bridges were carved by two winding streams that formed on the western slopes of Elk Ridge, a formation ... [1 Related Articles]
natural character: (from the article "Linnaeus, Carolus") Linnaeus did not consider the sexual system to be his main contribution toward the "reformation of botany" to which he aspired. His main contribution came in the form of a ...
natural childbirth: any of the systems of managing parturition in which the need for anesthesia, sedation, or surgery is largely eliminated by physical and psychological conditioning. Until the early 20th century, the ... [2 Related Articles]
natural deduction method: (from the article "formal logic") PC is often presented by what is known as the method of natural deduction. Essentially this consists of a set of rules for drawing conclusions from hypotheses (assumptions, premises) represented ...
natural dye: (from the article "Some natural dyes and their sources") Until the 1850s virtually all dyes were obtained from natural sources, most commonly from vegetables, such as plants, trees, and lichens, with a few from insects. Solid evidence that dyeing ...
natural fibre: any hairlike raw material directly obtainable from an animal, vegetable, or mineral source and convertible into nonwoven fabrics such as felt or paper or, after spinning into yarns, into woven ... [7 Related Articles]
natural frequency: (from the article "mechanics") These two collective motions, at different, definite frequencies, are known as the normal modes of the system.moleculesspectroscopyAnalysis of absorption spectra...nuclei ...
natural gas: colourless, highly flammable gaseous hydrocarbon consisting primarily of methane and ethane. It is a type of petroleum that commonly occurs in association with crude oil. Natural gas is often found ... [114 Related Articles]
natural gas well: (from the article "natural gas") ..."eternal fires" of the fire-worshiping religion of the ancient Persians. The use of natural gas was mentioned in China about 900 BC. It was in China in 211 BC that ...
natural glass: (from the article "industrial glass") Several inorganic glasses are found in nature. These include obsidians (volcanic glasses), fulgarites (formed by lightning strikes), tektites found on land in Australasia and associated microtektites from the bottom of ...
natural group: (from the article "work, history of the organization of") Throughout human history, work has often required organization. Capture of game and fish required varying degrees of cooperation among members of the group. Communal activity of this type had important ...
Natural Heritage Site: (from the article "World Heritage site") ...of sites: cultural, natural, and mixed. Cultural heritage sites include hundreds of historic buildings and town sites, important archaeological sites, and works of monumental sculpture or painting. Natural heritage sites ...
natural history museum: (from the article "museum, types of") Museums of natural history and natural science are concerned with the natural world; their collections may contain specimens of birds, mammals, insects, plants, rocks, minerals, and fossils. These museums have ...
Natural History Museum: British natural science museum that has national and international responsibilities for taxonomic and associated research based on its outstanding collection of specimens and its extensive libraries. It is located near ... [3 Related Articles]